Band of Brothers E09 'Why We Fight' - FULL REACTION!

Nah I wouldnt say better, but comparable good if you ask me. But nonetheless every minute worth of watching, its a great miniseries

Collin

I think I have to recommend if it has not been yet, Generation War(its a 3 part series but all german point of view and subtitled) Its probably just as good as, if not better than band of brothers

Will you watch the documentary after episode 10? (We stand alone together) Or will We see the reaction to it?

Robin Fredriksson

I haven't seen The Pacific, so this will be a new experience watching it via the reactions. Looking forward to it.

bwr

There is no way that residents living nearby didn't know what was going on downwind from the camp.

bwr

You may have missed it but the French soldier or gendarme that shot the three German prisoners was Tom Hanks.

I'll just watch it on my own time 😊

Sonny Mike Olsen

I know that Kat is turning her focus to finding a job which is completely understandable but i really think she should react to the documentary with you after episode 10. Its such a great doc and i feel like she would be missing out if she didnt tie her Band of Brother experience together by watching the doc with all of the men.

JDP11

Great pick Enrique Guerrero Sanchez! I love/hate to watch it but it is compelling and oh so chilling to watch. I'm a history buff of sorts with emphasis on Hitler and the Third Reich. I've spent a lot of hours attempting to understand how he persuaded/murdered his way to the top and also to understand the people who followed him blindly.

Maria Hammon

This is obviously a touchy, abhorrent, and unpleasant subject, but I would recommend you to watch the film Conspiracy from 2001 about the Wansee Conference, where the Final Solution was "discussed" amongst nazi officials. We all watch this episode in horror but unfortunately, things like this are still happening in this day and age. Hopefully one day we can all live in peace and watch this as a "never again".

After this and the Pacific I would recommend a much easier subject matter, but still at the time a prestige HBO mini series and that's "From Earth to the Moon". Done before Band of Brother, it was HBO's first big miniseries produced by Tom Hanks. Production Values aren't anywhere near as high, but for its time it was prestige television.

Mark Wood

found this piece of trivia regarding the extras for this episode'. Many of the extras playing concentration camp inmates were actually cancer patients undergoing treatment, hence their emaciated look.

That was Shifty who said that. Kind hearted man.

Catherine LW

Problem was, in 1942 none of the Allieds were ready to invade France. Amphibious invasions are the most difficult operations and the Allied forces were still in training/production mode in preparation.

Catherine LW

If you ever see the film Conspiracy (2001), it is about the Wannsee Conference. The Nazi officials planned out the extermination of millions of people while having sandwiches and tea for lunch. It's just unfathomable that humans are capable of such things.

EmwunGarand

I'm looking forward to Sonny and Dad reactions to The Pacific!

Delerium

He was brought up Catholic, but was Jewish from his mother's side. Not quite a liberty; especially when confronted by a horror of racial war.

Patrick Sheridan

Kat when the Tom Hardy character gets up from the bed: "Is that a double salute?" LMAO a nice bit of humor before the tears. Gotta say I loved the speech by the one soldier at the beginning: "Under different circumstances he and I could have been good friends". Well next episode we get some happy maybe prideful tears instead of angry/sad tears. Good luck Kat with the job hunt. Hope you'll find something you like soon.

Mark Valverde

In truth (while I'm sure the troops were unaware, as depicted) the Allied powers were pretty well aware of what was going on. As early as 1942, Polish and Jewish resistance groups had smuggled out photographs, as well as personal testimony. And British intelligence decoded some important dispatches concerning daily death counts at Auschwitz. But the Allies decided that, for better or worse, ending the war quickly was the best way to help (despite pleas from Jewish resistance groups to bomb the railways near Auschwitz at least, to slow down trains carrying "deportees")

Chris Truex

I am so excited for you to watch with your father!! I loved seeing him in ep 6, excited to have him back! Also super excited for yall to watch the documentary!

Maggie Andersen

I truly hope you'll be reacting to the documentary which is on the last disc, it's full of interviews with the real Easy Company soldiers.

Radwar

The date at the begin of the Episode says 11th April 1945 and Nixon claimed later that day that Hitler shot himself in Berlin. Actually Hitler was still alive until the 30th of April.

SirPurrsalot

The song they’re singing in this episode is called “blood on the risers” and is sung to the tune of the civil war song “battle hymn of the republic”. You might enjoy this video of an 82nd Airborne WW2 Vet singing it along with some more recent members of the 82nd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8pHvABlJcw

Doug Weldin

I’ve watched this series at least a dozen times and this episode never fails to make me weep. I’m a younger boomer, and I remember the anti-German sentiment held in the US as a child, since the war was only about 15 years in the past then. But now that I’m much older, and after having read many history books about the war and its aftermath, I realize how difficult and dangerous it was for decent Germans to stand up against the Nazi regime. I wonder if I would have the courage to do the same, especially if I had a family to care for. Another thing, after WWI, the Versailles Treaty destroyed Germany’s economy. Into that resentful void stepped a demagogue who used Jews as a scapegoat for Germany’s woes. General Marshall understood this problem after the Second World War and introduced the Marshall Plan to prevent history from repeating itself. Great reaction, as always. I’m excited that you’ll be doing The Pacific and that Sonny’s Dad will participate. I’m sorry Kat won’t be watching because she’s so observant and catches every nuance, but I understand why. It took me four attempts to watch it because it’s brutal in a different way. Psychologically, it’s much darker. We fought an enemy who was far more savage than the Wehrmacht was. And the savagery of the Japanese made our boys become savage. You see how this type of warfare destroyed not just bodies, but souls. The Pacific also addressed PTSD, and how hard it was to return to civilization after living and fighting like animals. The jungle was also a horrible environment- much more difficult than civilized Europe.

Catherine LW

The actual Liebgott was a Christian and not of Jewish Confession. It was a liberty taken by the screenwriters to better fit the series narative.

SirPurrsalot

There were talks and suspicions behind closed doors, but the regime kept a lot of this from the German people as well. The worst camps were outside of Germany, to try and hide the extent of what they were doing. It was obvious that Jewish people were being targeted, but the main narrative was that they were being interred or deported. When the full extent of the camps came to light after the regime fell it came as a shock to even those who kinda knew/suspected something far more sinister was up. Camps had been around since the 30s but conditioned really worsened after WWII started, by which point the regime used the war as an excuse and distraction to amp up the persecutions of Jewish and other minorities, under the guise of "We are at war and these people are helping the enemy". That's kinda the thing with living under an all-controlling regime: information (especially back in the day) was hard to come by, and if you asked too many questions, or the wrong questions, you could be punished as well.

In my opinion, the toughest and best episode of a series in TV history. It reminds us to fight resolutely against fascism, racism and exclusion today. Greetings from Germany.

Ardrianer

I think the average German knew a lot more about the holocaust than you think. Of course after the nazi’s rose to power, every German was forced to join, and there was a German resistance. However, the anti-Semitic propaganda was wide spread, kristallnacht was a huge event, and the deportation of Jews and minorities was public knowledge. Mass columns of starving forced laborers were marched through German towns in the middle of the day, and towns near camps had problems with the stench of bodies and ash falling from the crematoriums. Confronting the result of the years of propaganda and seeing the horrific conclusion first hand would still have been shocking. I think the scene with the widow of the SS officer illustrates that, the pride she had in the first appearance, versus the crushing guilt when she see’s what all the “superiority” of the German race actually looks like.

Doug Weldin

Been waiting for this one. Nice reaction. I too cried like a baby when they found the camp. Just heartbreaking the state those people were in, the things they had to go through, the people they lost. I've watched the series so many times and it still gets to me.

LucidZ

Frank Perconte was a Taccoa man. He was the one who first gets his weekend pass revoked from Sobel because his trousers were “bloused”

JDP11

lets goooo I loved your dad in ep 6 lol

This was the one I was waiting for the most. When I first saw this, I had to stop the show and take a walk before I could come back to it.

Shawn Lewis